So Kali Linux is a Debian based Linux distribution aimed at advanced penetration testing and security
auditing.
Cali contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various information security tasks such
as penetration testing, security research, computer forensics and reverse engineering.
Kali Linux is developed, funded and maintained by offensive security, a leading information security
training company.
Now we're going to use Kali as the attacker system.
However, if you don't want to use Kali for whatever reason, you can download the tools that we use
and install them to your host machine.
So let's download it and install it as a virtual machine on our host system.
I'm going to prepare Kali VM directly from the VMware image first.
The first step is to download the VM files.
Open the browser and simply Google the words collie and download.
The first website is the official site of Kali, so click on it.
This is the download page of Kali.
These are the ISO files.
You can use them to install Kali as the main host or as a virtual machine in any virtualization platform.
Now, these are the images that you can use to install.
With the latest release, Kali Linux announced that the images have been restructured and simplified.
So from now on, Kali Linux has new image styles, installer image, a live image and a network installer
image.
Installer image is recommended for users who want to use Kali Linux on their system.
No network connection is required.
You can choose desktop environments such as XFCE, KDE, gnome and any other tools that you want to
install during your installation.
Now, the second one is a live image.
So it's used to run Cali without installing it.
And the last one is a network install image.
The smallest image, of course, is download, containing only enough to install the base system that
requires a network connection to install selected applications.
At the bottom of the collar.
Image files table there are ready to use.
Well, almost ready to use Collie virtual machines.
So if you're going to use Collie as a virtual machine, you can use them instead of installing ISO files
from scratch.
I'm just going to use one of these images now, so I'll click on this link.
The VMware images are on this tab.
The first link is a zipped archive.
You have to extract it after the download.
Let me show you what you'll have after you extract it.
And you will have a VMware file here.
You can simply run the VM file to run the VM.